Position: Private Equity Technical Lead
Location: Malvern, PA
Client: Randstad/Vanguard
Work Arrangement: Hybrid 3 days onsite per week
Relocation: Candidates willing to relocate to Malvern, PA will be considered.
Important Candidate Requirements
- Private Equity / Private Markets experience is mandatory.
- Strong experience in Private Markets, Alternative Investments, or Private Equity technology platforms.
- Experience with Fund Accounting technology, including NAV calculations, fund valuations, and oversight.
- Robust hands-on AWS cloud experience is required.
- Technical expertise in Python, React, DynamoDB, S3, and Lambda.
- Experience with data integration, workflow automation, and AI-assisted reconciliation is highly desirable.
- Candidates with experience using Canoe or MSCI platforms will have a significant advantage.
- Must be willing to work onsite 3 days per week in Malvern, PA.
- Local candidates and candidates willing to relocate will be considered.
- Video interview process; no ROPS test required.
Key Responsibilities
1. Private Equity & Fund Accounting Technology
- Lead the design and development of technology platforms supporting Private Equity and Private Markets.
- Build solutions for Fund Valuation, Fund Accounting, and oversight of Fund Net Asset Values (NAVs).
- Work closely with investment and accounting teams to understand Private Market business processes and translate them into technical solutions.
- Support technology initiatives related to Alternative Investments and Private Market operations.
- Leverage industry knowledge and professional networks to identify relevant technology solutions and best practices.
- Drive improvements in fund valuation processes, accounting workflows, and investment data management.
2. Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Lead and design the technology stack supporting Private Equity and Private Markets platforms.
- Define scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native application architectures.
- Provide technical direction and guidance to development teams.
- Drive architectural decisions and establish engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, and cross-functional technology teams.
- Take ownership of technical solutions from architecture and design through implementation and delivery.
3. AWS Cloud & Application Development
- Design and support cloud-native applications using AWS services.
- Leverage AWS technologies, including:
- AWS DynamoDB
- Amazon S3
- AWS Lambda
- Utilize Python for backend development, data processing, and application integration.
- Leverage React for frontend application development.
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud-based solutions.
- Ensure application reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
4. Data Engineering & Integration
- Design and implement robust data architectures supporting Private Markets and Alternative Investments.
- Work with structured and unstructured financial and investment data.
- Build and support market data integrations from external data providers and investment platforms.
- Develop efficient data ingestion, transformation, and processing workflows.
- Implement data quality, validation, reconciliation, and monitoring processes.
- Support complex data integration requirements across fund accounting and valuation systems.
5. AI-Assisted Reconciliation & Workflow Automation
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI-assisted reconciliation within Private Equity and Fund Accounting workflows.
- Drive automation of manual investment and accounting processes.
- Explore AI-enabled solutions for data matching, reconciliation, exception handling, and operational efficiency.
- Implement workflow automation to improve accuracy, transparency, and processing efficiency.
- Evaluate emerging technologies that can enhance Private Markets operations.
Required Technical Skills
AWS & Cloud Technologies
- Strong hands-on AWS cloud architecture and development experience.
- AWS DynamoDB
- Amazon S3
- AWS Lambda
- Cloud-native application architecture and integration.
Programming & Application Development
- Python
- React
- Experience developing scalable enterprise applications.
- Backend services, frontend development, and API integrations.
Data & Integration
- Strong data engineering and data architecture experience.
- Experience working with structured and unstructured data.
- Market data integrations.
- Data ingestion, transformation, and reconciliation.
- Workflow automation.
Private Equity / Private Markets Domain Mandatory
- Strong experience in Private Equity or Private Markets technology.
- Knowledge of Alternative Investments.
- Experience with Fund Accounting technology.
- Understanding of Fund NAV calculations, valuations, and NAV oversight.
- Experience supporting investment management or private fund operations.